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Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp displaying worrying signs
Sky Sports reporter James Weir believes Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is continuing to display worrying signs as the Reds’ miserable season continues.
The Lowdown: Molineux nightmare
Klopp’s side found themselves on the wrong end of another scoreline in the Premier League with the Reds beaten comfortably at Molineux on Saturday.
An own goal from Joel Matip just five minutes in set the tone for the rest of the afternoon for the visitors as Craig Dawson and Ruben Neves added a second and third for Wolves, who climbed out of the drop zone with their 3-0 win.
The defeat sees Liverpool currently as close to the relegation zone as they are to the top four, sitting 11 points from each zone in 10th.
The Latest: Weir’s comments
Following a third defeat in four league games with the other a goalless draw against Chelsea, Sky Sports reporter Weir discussed Klopp’s position on Sky Sports and suggested that the poor form is taking its toll on the German manager, saying:
“All those serial winners spitting their dummy out and toys come out of the pram when they get questions they don’t like to answer and we’re seeing it increasingly with Jurgen Klopp now.”
“It’s like when you’re sitting round the dinner table with your family and ‘I’m not talking to you, can someone tell Mum to pass me the salt’, that’s what it sounded like, you can ask me the question but I’m not going to answer it from him.”
“You need to be a bit of a sore loser but that’s coming across more and more now and he just seems to be wearing all these defeats very visibly as well”
The Verdict: Worrying times
As Weir mentioned, Klopp gave a prickly post-match interview following the Wolves defeat where he refused to answer a question posed by The Athletic’s Liverpool reporter James Pearce.
Klopp claimed that he didn’t want to talk to him for “all the things you wrote” but allowed other reporters to ask the same question (via Sky Sports).
Liverpool have finished in the top three of the league in the previous four campaigns and a Champions League spot in the last six, you have to go back to when Klopp first took charge to see them miss out on Europe entirely with an eighth placed finish (Transfermarkt).
His reaction to Pearce’s question shows a clear insight into the pressure he’s feeling potentially mounting on him, that he’s again relayed in an irritable press conference.
